Hyper: ssh on windows

[andrewbanchich]

Any chance you could implement SSH for Windows users? I know Secure SSH is a Chrome-based terminal that allows us to SSH on Windows, so maybe Hyper could allow for something similar?

[Specro]

Hyper is just an interface for a shell. You should use something like OpenSSH or PuTTY(has a cli called Plink if you really want to use command line), or packages that include ssh like Gow, CygWin or MSYS 👌

[andrewbanchich]

@Specro Yes, but I think they force you to use their own terminals to have the ability to use SSH. I am thinking since Chrome Secure Shell already does this, is a Chrome Web App, and allows for using SSH on Windows, that it would be able to be integrated with Hyper since Hyper in an Electron app.

[subodhpareek18]

I'm using git bash, and it lets me ssh without any problems

[andrewbanchich]

@zusamann Still doesn't open in Hyper though. I want to use Hyper.

[maxshaw]

@andrewbanchich just install git for windows. and add "C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin" to PATH.
including ssh, sftp ...

[andrewbanchich]

@maxshaw I added "C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin" to PATH, restarted Hyper, and tried to run "ssh mywebsite.com" and it says 'ssh' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

[andyeskridge]

If you edit your .hyper.js config file to match the snippet below you should have no problems using ssh.

// the shell to run when spawning a new session (i.e. /usr/local/bin/fish)
// if left empty, your system's login shell will be used by default
shell: 'C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe',

// for setting shell arguments (i.e. for using interactive shellArgs: ['-i'])
// by default ['--login'] will be used
shellArgs: ['--login', '-i'],

EDIT: An explanation of what this is doing:

Hyper is a terminal that you can configure to run different shells. In the snippet above, we are telling hyper to use the bash shell that comes with Git on Windows (which is what I have assumed you have installed to get git on your machine). Now when you start up hyper, instead of using window's default shell (CMD) it will now use Git's bash. This will give you access to ssh and other tools that come with git on windows.

[andrewbanchich]

@andyeskridge Worked perfectly! Thank you!

[Sispheor]

It would be very nice to have same features as https://termius.com/.

[pwnedDesal]

you may like this https://www.howtogeek.com/336775/how-to-enable-and-use-windows-10s-built-in-ssh-commands/